Float-operated valve



(No Model.)

R. W. HYERS. FLOAT OPERATED VALVE.

No., 596,880. Patented Jan. 4, 1898.

UNIT D STATES PATENT @rricn.

REUBEN W. HYERS, OF PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.

FLOAT-*OPERATED VALVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,880, dated January4, 1898.

Application filed June 8 1897. Serial No. 639,861. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, REUBEN W. HYERs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Plattsmouth, in the county of Cass and State of Nebraska,have invented a new and useful Float- Operated Valve, of which thefollowing is a specification. I

My invention relates to a float-operated valve for stock-watering andother troughs and receptacles; and the object in view is to provide asimple and efficient construction of combined valve and float adapted tobe applied with facility to a water trough or receptacle of any ordinaryconstruction having a supply-pipe which enters said receptacle at .theside and, furthermore, to provide a float of such construction as toapproximately close the top of the trough or receptacle at the endcontiguous to the valve, whereby stock in watering are not liable todisarrange the valve or otherwise render the apparatus inoperative.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in thefollowing description, and the novel features thereof will beparticularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 isa longitudinal section of a stock-wateringtrough, showing in operative position a combined float and valveconstructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 3 is a detail View inperspective of the combined float and valve detached from thereceptacle.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawmgs.

1 designates a trough or receptacle, through one end wall of whichprojects a supply-pipe 2,the extremity of said pipe projecting slightlybeyond the inner surface of the end wall and being preferably incommunication with a source from which a continuous supply may beobtained. In connection with this ordinary construction of trough orreceptacle I employ a combined float 3 and valve 4, rigidly securedtogether, with the terminal or operative face of the valve approximatelyperpendicular to the plane of the float. The

float illustrated and preferred in this connec Fig. 2 is aplan view ofthe same.-

tion is a flat plate or board of suitable buoy ant material, which isapproximately equal in width with the trough or receptacle in which itis arranged, in order to close the top of said trough or receptacle andthereby pre vent stock from gaining access to the contents of the troughcontiguous to the valve. In other words, the float being of equal widthwith the trough at the end contiguous to the valve covers the contentsthereof, and hence stock is attracted to the portion of the trough wherethe contents are exposed. Contiguous to the rear or hinged end of thefloat its side edges are cut away, as shown at 5, to allow sufflcientspace for securing the hinge-straps 6, and the eyes or portions of thehinge-straps which project beyond the contiguous edge of the float areengaged by simple staples 7, or the equivalents thereof, in order tomount the float upon that wall of the receptacle through which thesupply-pipe projects.

The float, as above indicated, is of a width approximately equal to thereceptacle to conceal the subjaoent contents of the receptacle, and thusprevent stock from approaching the valve While partaking of the contentsof the receptacle. I have found in practice that this construction offloat serves as a suffl cient protection for the valve and effectuallyprevents stock from attempting to obtain water at a point near the inletend of the .trough.

In practice I prefer to arrange the valve block 4 at an intermediatepoint between the hinge-straps 6 and upon the upper side of the floatand fit its front face with a suitable packing-disk 8; but it will beunderstood that various changes in the form, proportion, and the minordetails of construction may be resorted to without departing from thespirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- I The combination withan open-topped receptacle provided in one end wall with a supply-pipe,projecting slightly beyond the innor surface thereof, of a combinedfloat and valve, the former consisting of a flat plate or boardapproximately equal in width with the receptacle, to conceal thesubjacent contents of the portion of the receptacle contiguous to thesupply-pipe, and form a top or cover for preventing stock from seeingthe contents of the receptacle contiguous to the supply-pipe, 5 and thevalve consisting of an upstanding bloc-k rising from the upper surfaceof the plate or board at a point between its side edges and providedwith a packing-disk, and

hinge-straps secured to the lateral edges of fro the plate or board andengaged by staples secured in the Wall of the receptacle, substantiallyas specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have heretoaffixedmy signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

REUBEN HYERS.

\Vitnesses:

ALBERTA K. DAVIES, JOHN A. DAVIES.

